[captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> you are watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, latebreaking. this is 11 news at noon. >> good afternoon. i am sarah caldwell. baltimore celebrates another purple friday the ravens will

board a plane to denver. looks like fans are ramp up and ready to go. >> are you already, are you already? these fans are ready. the cheerleaders just came in. you can see how many fans are here. are you ready for the game? >> yes! >> are we going to win? >> i hope so. >> ok, let me find out from my buddies here did what we going to do tomorrow? >> win! >> are we going to whoop 'em? >> yeah. >> here are some of the younger guys. >> who is your favorite player? ray rice? >> go ray rice.

>> once again, fans are here, they are excited, ready for some football. i am going to step out of way so you can see how many people here. if you can see all the people lined up by the salad bar, vegetable ar bar. fans are ready and the ravens are on their way 7 soon. >> that is a lot of energy there. wbal-tv 11 will be in mile high city for the game. pete gilbert is already there and he filed this report on his first night in broncos country. >> we have made our way to denver, and the town live up in orange. this tower over my shoulder,

back on the denver's skyline, all lit up in orange, although i am a little disappointed. i saw maybe two jerseys downtown. not like we see in baltimore. they are certainly very confident. they have had a home field advantage throughout. probably at the back of peyton manning's mind, he has never won a playoff game with a temperature below 40 degrees. something to think about. i talked to some ravens fans. their world be a solid purple presence here. we look forward to catching up with them and we will have live ocoverage, 5:00, 6:00, 10:00, and 11:00. >> sounds good pete. there is more than pride riding on this country maryland gov.

martin o'malley and colorado gov. john hick and never have entered into a playoff wager. if the ravens win, we will get a dozen lamb chops. if the broncos, on top, we will send it crabcakes to colorado. tonight, gerry sandusky it gives you a behind the scenes look, and hear some exclusive sounds from ray lewis' final career home game. that is tonight at 7:30 and tomorrow morning on a wbal-plus. >> weather is going to be a big factor in this game tomorrow. colder there than it is here. they had a weather system come in, and they have a mixture of rain and light flurries in the area.

temperatures have settled into the upper 30's. dropping off of that -- dropping off a bit with the precipitation in the area kidney-to-upper- teens. very cold. east, northeast, 5 to 10, but that will make it seem a little bit colder. we will be unusually warm. our forecast in just a minute. >> we are getting a better look at the suspects involved in a december armed robbery and abingdon road the harford county sheriff's office least this photograph of two men who officials say stole money from a mcdonald's restaurant on constant and to boulevard. the suspects got away in this white chevy impala. anyone with information is asked to call the harford county sheriff's office. also new, a woman in her 70's is

fighting for her life at johns hopkins bayview. firefighters pulled a woman from a burning apartment just before 9:30 this morning. crews were called to the 8800 block of tamar drive. it took firefighters about 25 minutes to put out the flames, but not before three apartments were damaged. investigators are trying to determine how the fire started. now and 11 news update to a story we brought you as breaking news on wednesday. the woman who led police on a miles-long pursuit caught exclusively by sky team 11 remains in jail on $125,000 bond. according to court records, phylicia hoffman has faced dozens of fat -- alycia hoffman has faced dozens of traffic charges in the past and was arrested just days before. the cart reportedly belonged to her grandfather, a retired sheriff's deputy. police say that these victims, two 16-year-old boys, and 19-

year-old woman, and a 20-year- old man, or hit, and at least two suffered life-threatening injuries, but the driver remained on the scene. investigators are trying to figure out who was at fault. in harford county lawmaker is taking on bge in an effort to keep consumers from paying o extra charges. the utility wants to charge customers who want to opt out of installing a smart meter in their home or business. the new meters are supposed to keep the track of who is without power and for how long, but some consumers are concerned that the smart meters could cause health problems and compromise privacy. the debate has prompted the public service commission to allow a temporary opt-out option. now a delegate has introduced a bill making the option permanent entry. >> if someone does not want a

smart meter at their house, they can refuse it at no cost to them. >> bge does not have an opt-out plan in place. coming up, the president of afghanistan visit to washington, d.c. what how karzai wants to discuss with president obama. and we are approaching the one- year mark of the debt the costa concordia accident we check in on the progress

>> this afternoon, president barack obama will lock them afghan president comet karzai to the white house -- will come afghan president hamid karzai to the white house. hallie jackson has more on what is expected out of the meeting from our washington bureau. >> today's face-to-face visit between the two presidents is the first since president obama was reelected and caps a three- day-long visit to the u.s. by the afghan leader. the u.s. is looking to its transition out of afghanistan, figuring out what its role will be over the next two years and how many troops might stay beyond 2014. president karzai hopes to work out the foundation of a security agreement at today's meeting, but it is not expected to be fully fleshed out until november of this year.

in washington, i am hallie jackson, wbal-tv 11 news. >> still to come, the nation's latest school shooting victim undergoes surgery today. who police are credited with saving lives on a combination. >> 84 james holmes is delay. >> 84 james holmes is delay.

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his classmates using a 12 gauge shotgun. at least 20 additional rounds were found in his pocket. officials are crediting a teacher and campus counselor for preventing a massacre could they confronted the suspect and convinced him to hand over the weapon. >> heroics of these two people is without saying it to face up to someone who is a shotgun and has already shot at students speaks volumes about these young men and what they could have prevented. they could have just as easily gotten out of the classroom. they did not. they took the responsibility very serious and we're proud of what they did. >> school administrators said the school shooting happened just minutes after they practice new lockdown safety procedures. vice-president joe biden will spend his friday meeting with representatives from the video game industry, talking about gun control. thursday, he met with the nra,

which says it was disappointed with the meeting. they believe the white house is less focused on keeping children safe and more focused on restricting guns to lawful owners. but other groups present at the meeting say the nra will have to budge. >> they said, "oh, yeah. , that is interesting, but we want to talk about regulating firearms itself." >> they realize the game is changing so quickly and me to them that they will have to adjust. >> the task force on gun control is expected to recommend stricter background checks on gun sales and a ban on high capacity clips. the suspect in the aurora, colorado shootings is given more time to consider a plea. a judge granted the defense the delay in the arraignment process. >> the decision to go to trial is not unexpected. the evidence was overwhelming.

>> no surprises in the court ruling. there was overwhelming evidence supporting all 166 counts of the case of the people versus jamestown's. -- versus james holmes. >> the request by attorneys to delay the arraignment was also no surprise. >> the prosecution got a huge head start in the case. >> that happened during the preliminary hearing. prosecutors provided vivid images three-dimensional testimony from police officers, 911 calls, and video surveillance video of minpeco is trying to escape. but the preliminary hearing ended with no evidence from defense attorneys, who decided not to call witnesses to testify state.olmes' mental his attorney said that he is mentally ill, but family members anof victims disagree. >> he is very cold, very calculated.

>> a plea could be reached that would avoid the death penalty for holmes. >> get rid of him. >> prosecutors outlined how he prepared for the mass shooting, amassing arsenal and ammunition, taking surveillance photos of the theater, and buying his movie ticket weeks in advance. he also rigged his apartment with explosives to take away emergency resources from the theater. clear signs to some of premeditation. >> it was something he had planned a very long time, it is by his reaction, he took a lot of delight in it. >> he is being held in bond in isolation -- held without bond isolation. not guilty by way of insanity is a last resort is tiny 1% of cases nationwide. >> now, you're 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with meteorologist john collins.

>> calls all morning this morning. we're beginning to see more precipitation attempt to come out of those clouds. in little northwest of us on the i-95 corridor at cecil county, and more significant rates west of hagerstown. that is drifting towards pennsylvania. we will see more activity during the afternoon and evening hours it will not be a big rain. it will be ushering in warmer temperatures, although it is not particularly one right now. we've been pumping around in the 40's and low 50s. normal highs about 41. after we get this batch of rain in the weekend, we will get a little spike. we may spend a day or two is 60 before cold weather returns. we have an east to southeast

wind, and that combined with a cloud is holding temperatures down a bank our area. mid-forties and a general in the baltimore area through most of maryland. the sun has been a little more active in the south. we see some green passed garrett county. monterey's only 42. there is warmer air coming in from the west. we are stuck here with a little wedge of chilly air into our area. the biggest trends are from just west of hagerstown -- the biggest race card from just west of hagerstown into eyrie, pennsylvania. a little edge of chilly air here. that may take awhile. it will be tough to make it to 50 today. eventually the mild air will get in here before we get a shot of relief cold stuff by the end of

next week. speaking of really cold air, what is highlighted in the shades of blue and pink are the readings that are below freezing, below 32 degrees. the coldest of the air is coming out of canada now and settling into the northern plains and rocky mountains. tomorrow, game time in denver, temperatures are expected to be only around 15. that cold shifts to the new east -- the east by next week. afternoon showers and in the forecast. se and the five to 10 miles per hour. shower activity is kind of scattered and limited to this afternoon and evening. once all that goes through, we will be in good shape going into the weekend. maybe close to 50 today, but in the 50's to the 60's on saturday. in the 60's on sunday. rain chances spike up on monday and tuesday. temperatures go down by the end of the week. >> a year since the costa

concordia cruise ship ran aground off the coast of italy. family members of those killed in the accident are arriving for the anniversary. more as we cover the nation -- the world. >> it will be one year since the costa concordia disaster. people are starting to arrive for the service. and it is still here in the exact same position it was. you can see these enormous structures that the salvage crews have built around at. 24 hours a day, at seven days a week. today you talk to the survivors of this, and the emotional impact is just as present, just as strong. >> screaming, yelling, and there

was a woman with a baby with her. she was trying to hand the baby over the railing. >> there is a lot of anger towards the company that does happen at all, and the way they were treated immediately after the wreck. there will be a memorial service for the 32 did not make it off the ship safely. among them, an american couple, a little girl, a woman on her honeymoon. the boulder that the ship struck will be put back in the sea and the place it originally was. >> up next, your maryland lottery numbers, and we will get another check of the insta- weather-plus forecast. first, a look at wall str

>> and now time 3 maryland lottery pick three and pick four numbers. >> the maryland lottery celebrates purple friday all season long. >> at the purple friday. i am sarah fleischer from 98 rock. go ravens. here are your pick 3 numbers for this purple friday.

get to your pick four in just a moment. late pick 3 for a dollar or more, and you can went $5, $10, or $25 instantly. all set and ready to go with your pick four numbers. the maryland lottery -- the let yourself play. >> john is talking about a really mild weekend. >> shower this afternoon, most of the they will be 40 to 50, 50 saturday, a 60's sunday. older. -- next week colder.

>> thanks for joining us.